How well do you feel
you completed the requirements of the week’s assignments?
This week I completed all the assignments but I was a little
late posting my Lankshear and Knobel chapter response. I still received good comments from others so
it all worked out! I was better at my
goal of tweeting people when I responded to their blog posts and I also
remembered to check the ‘notify me’ box so I got an email when people replied
to my posts or my comments.
What gave you
trouble? What did you enjoy most? What did you learn?
I am struggling with Daily Creates and finding ones that
interest me. Maybe I am not creative
enough or adventurous enough but nothing this week, except the first day’s pen a tweet, has interested me. I also
struggled with my mash up assignment, I had no idea how time consuming it would
be! First I completed the assignment
using pictures and then realized it was supposed to be clips so I had to start
over. I wasn’t thrilled with my final result as I mentioned in my blog, but it was the best I could do! The last thing that gave me trouble was my
darn computer. My personal computer has
yet to work properly since the mysterious downloads a few weeks ago so I have
been using my school computer. It has
been fine except when I go to watch people’s story critiques or look for ones of
my own (here is the mashup I critiqued this week), and I can’t watch it because my computer is stuck in ‘safety mode’. It has been very frustrating!
I enjoyed watching and reading people’s critiques this week
(I watched them on my phone or iPad), they made me laugh and opened my eyes to
some things I never knew existed, like Trailer Cuts. I am not sure I will spend a lot of time
looking at them in the future, but it was cool to see. I have never been one to just sit on the
computer and watch videos nor do I ever think I will be, but I have found
myself watching more and more that I see ‘trending’ on Facebook or the Today
Show.
What would you do
differently? What questions to you have?
If I were to do my mashup assignment over, I would like to
research other movie making programs so I can learn how to make the transitions
between clips smoother. Like I said
before, I don’t have much to work with but it is worth looking in to.
I don’t really have any questions just general
wonderings. First, is there a way to
check how I am doing in the course? I
know you don’t post grades but a quick note about my progress in the course
would be nice or if there is something I need to be doing differently. Second, I am struggling finding meaningful
digital stories to critique, especially with these new remix literacy
practices. There are things I am finding
that interest me, but I can’t figure out how to critique them given Lankshear
and Knobel’s guidelines. I know you said
in your screen cast that you were changing the requirement to one critique so
they could be more meaningful and deeper but how do I go deeper using these
guidelines? Anyone else having this
trouble?
What are some of the
larger issues surrounding your work?
Other than what I mentioned above, I don’t have many other
issues. I have figured out ways, thanks
to some good advice, on how to relate the DS106 assignments to my focal theme
and that is going better!
Score: 9/10
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